World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that new evidence shows people with Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) such as obesity were found to be as much as seven times more at-risk to develop worse COVID-19 health outcomes than other patients.
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